Did anyone else on Gransnet attend Churchills lying in state and funeral? I did both.
I had just started work in London and went one evening after work. I have heard a number of people recently talking of waiting six hours or more, but I got there at about 5.30pm and was through and on my way home by 8.00pm.
My younger sisters and I went up to the funeral. I worked in the St Pauls area so I had worked out the best place to stand and how to get there. We were at the top of Ludgate Hill only 20 or 30 yards from the steps to the cathedral. We got there about 9.00am and there were very few people there so we had places right up against the barrier and were able to see all the great and good arrive and hear the service on speakers. Afterwards we walked back to Waterloo station and as we got there ahead of the cortege were able to catch a train home to Epsom without delay.
When we got home we watched the train leave Waterloo on television.
Why did I go to the lying and state and the funeral? because I felt that it was a historic occasion and that some time in the future, like now, I would have that real feeling that this was a great historic event and I was there.
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic